There’s a group that’s building awareness to TVs polluting the world with an online graveyard called JUNKED TV at http://www.junkedtv.com

Lonely TV’s are now a permanent fixture on our sidewalks – it’s an odd phenomena when you take the time to notice it – If you see a junked tv on the side of the road take a pic and email it to them to add it to the campaign.

“The company mentioned at the end of the media release, Renewable Processes, is a local Canberra company who’ve just started out and are all about recycling e-waste. There’s a cost involved with them too.”

I think it was win news that showed one of the Greenies complaining that the company doing it was an international company (and why couldn’t a local company do it)…?

Yes it costs you money to do the right thing and dispose of these things responsibly, but there’s a cost involved in recycling electronic equipment such as computers, TVs and monitors, and I imagine you’ve gotta go through a pretty high number of machines before you start to pull a profit from the precious metals etc you’ve extracted.

The company mentioned at the end of the media release, Renewable Processes, is a local Canberra company who’ve just started out and are all about recycling e-waste. There’s a cost involved with them too.

If you want to do the right thing but don’t want to pay money to the bloody ‘guvnmt’, go give your business to Renewable and help support a local business. It’d be pretty bloody poor form of the ‘guvnmt’, probably contractually obliged with the current recycling tenderer, if they didn’t charge for this service given there’s a local small business trying to do the same thing.

I feel that seeing as the Federal Government is turning off the Analogue TV signal and is now encouraging people to go ditigal all old CRT style TVs should be free to dump. This should then discourage people dumping illegally. People wishing to dump plasma or lcd tvs should still be charged.

Typical guvmnt reaction, failure to think outside the square. Monitors and TVs up to about 34cm fit in the neighbour’s garbage bins, larger than that usually require a trip to the skip at the back of the local shops, or a nature strip in the next suburb. The guvmnt and goodie goodies around can whinge about the practice but it has been happening and it will happen even more.

Surely it would be better to allow a drop-off of old electronics items in a central location, a relatively small cost to the guvmnt, and a possible resource furhter down the track when recycling all the components becomes viable, as I’m sure it eventually will. Aren’t there examples around of machinery developed to shred and recover metals and plastics from computers?

Seriously, with the cost of disposing old CRT’s, does Mr Stanhope really think that people will pay the amount when dumping old TV’s in skip bins or on the sidewalk is free? (especially at 3am)

I know that e-waste is a serious problem, however a user pays system for it is liable to make people dump stuff at the side of the road as the odds of being caught doing so (as a once off) is pretty slim.

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